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   New York Times, The (Newspaper) - April 29, 1896, New York, New York                               16 r Pages MAT WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 1896, BY THE NEW-YORK TIMES PUBLISHING CO. SENTENCED FUR TREASON Transvaal's Punishment of the Re- form Leaders Who FIVE MX ARE CONDEMNED TO DEATH Including Four Musi Pay a Be find Then Be JOHN HAYS HAMMOND'S PART Chamberlain Telegraphs a Diplomatic Threat Lest tlie Verdict Be Not Tempered by Executive April trial of John Hays the American mining en- Col. Francis brother of Cecil of the Cape Col- Lionel George Charles and who were arrested at Johannesburg upon charges of treason In be- ing active members of the Johannesburg Reform which was held to have In- Dr. Jamieson's Jolin Condemned to Death for Treason In the day In the sentencing of five of the of the so-called reform movement to an- Farrar pleaded guilty of high treason on Friday and who was 111 and not In court on that made a similar plea This It was have the effect of mitigating the verity of their but H turns out that It did Among the other members of the Reform Commutes who were to-day are four chief neer of the Robinson Gold Mining Com- Victor B. assistant con- engineer of the Consolidated Gold Fields Mining J. S. a mining who Is well known in and a Mr. They wero sentenced to pay a fine of 510.000, to undergo two and then to be banished from the Transvaal for three the House of Com- mons Joseph tary of State for the I have received a private of the accuracy of which I have no saying that five of the leaders of the called Reform Committee at bean condemned to I thereupon telegraphed to Sir Hercules at Cape Instructions to communicate the following to President The Government has Just learned that the sentence of death has been Imposed upon the chief leaders of the Reform Com- The Government has no doubt your Honor will commute the the Government has assured ment that tins Is your Honor's April Olney to-day received a cable dispatch from Mr. C. United States Vice Consul at Cape South announcing the sentence of John Hays It said that Hammond and five others had been condemned to but that It was understood that the sentences would be The subject formed a topic for Bion at the Cabinet meeting It Is asserted hero that the State Department has official Information to the effect that Hammond and the other leaders In the re- form movement pleaded guilty under an agreement that they would not be ished sev It is likely that the leaders will get off heavy and perhaps small of Hammond Is sessed of considerable property In tho South African and there has a disposition on the pare of the Boers to confiscate it. So far the attempt has been frustrated and sufficiently strong from thia Government may Its April most In- tense excitement was caused here when It became known that the leaders of the Reform Committee had been sentenced to and extremely severe sentences against the other members of the A public meeting lias been to give expression to the lar disapproval of the action of the John Hays Hammond Is a native of and Is thirty-nine years of He was graduated from and later took a course of study In mining engineering at He first made himself conspicuous by his work In the service of the United States through his connection with the Sonora In he became known In Mr. Hammond went to Africa In 1S.03, In the employ of another but his work had attracted the attention of Cecil to whom he had a letter of duction and Mr. Rhodes soon got blm to transfer his services to the British South Africa In tho capacity of mining fur which ha received a salary ol a The great which Mr. Hammond has British South Africa Company has been to examine the mineral resources of Matabeleland and and report to the His re- port was so satisfactory that he was complimented by Dr. Cecil Jl and the Duke of Vice dent of the British South Africa Mr. Hammond's headquarters were at and it Is said that he was the moat popular In the His Intimacy with Cecil Rhodes made the Boers hate him after the Jameson He was a member of the Johannesburg Re- which sought to obtain re- dress from the but to most minds there Is no evidence that he aver Influenced or gave serious countenance to a resort to arms against the Ha was arrested with other members of the Reform Union last Winter on chargas high and taken to Pretoria for He and aja were afterward released on bail of each their but wero kept ly under police LONDON EXPECTING General Impression Mint tlie Dentil Penally Will Be April the news of the death sentence passed on the five ers of the Johannesburg movement was a surprise and shock to those here who have watched the politicians inside and outside of Parliament admit that the tence Is tho natural complement of tho plea of Nobody here believes that the sentence will be It Is thought that under the law under which the accused were tried there was no course open to the Court but to Impose the death It Is believed now that the arrangement between the and the Transvaal authorities provided for the passing of the death while at the same time the uvo men knew that the President would exercise the power with he Is Invested and later commute the What the general feeling among the Boers toward the prisoners Is a matter of Before the trouble at burg they were very but there was a significant Incident In connection with their arrest that Is not generally Shortly after they were lodged In the Jail at a number of Boers took to that city a on which some years ly the British had hanged several for When the attention of tho Government was called to this a prompt disclaimer of any implied threat to hang the prisoners was and It was asserted that the beam had been taken to Pretoria to be used for building Sir Charles M. and Sir Donald M. the well-known owner of steamships plying to South both of whom are personally acquainted with ident Henry M. and Henry M. M. the African expressed the opinion that dent Kriiger would exercise clemency and abrogate the sentence of Minister Lord in a speech at made an at- tack on Mr. Chamberlain for his ment of the Transvaal A er diplomatic comedy of he had never been He hoped that the Secretary of State for the Colonies would now exercise patience and discretion and curb his Then the negotiations might be satisfactorily A report Is circulated and generally In the lobby of the House of that Colonial Secretary ad- vised the surrender of Col. Rhodes and his comrades to the legal authorities at Pre- and also advised them to enter a ol upon the assurance that the Pretoria authorities would treat them with The Opposition are framing a. series of questions to be propounded to the ment with the object of forcing them to make revelations showing precisely what part tlie English Government has played in the The IT an article on the tion of and the others to news absorbs the entire of the House of The concensus cf Is that the con- men am In no real but the Is unanimous that In the event of the contrary there must be instant It would bo Impossible for even the Government to hold office for a day any other course were W. Galloway In the House of whether the law governing such cases did not provide simply for the con- of tho property of the persons found and not for the Imposition of death sentences upon Mr. Chamberlain replied that he could not answer that as he was ful whether the condemned men had been tried under the statute law of the Transvaal or the Roman and Dutch JAMESON'S TRIAL Rider of His Meeting Tilth the trial of Dr. son and his was resumed In the Bow Street Police Court this The street In the vicinity of the court was much quieter than upon the occasions of previous hearings of the and the room was not nearly so crowded as though there were many distinguished persons Among those In ance were Ladles Chesterfield and Foley and Mrs. wife of the United States The Court decided that after sitting the case would be adjourned until June 11, when Important evidence from Africa would be Sir Edward Clarke argued a motion that the charges against the minor defendants We but the Court refused to gram the Dispatch Rider Rowlands was called to tho witness stand and testified that he had ridden on a bicycle from Johannesburg to from there advanced to meet Jameson and his He met Jameson on New Year's evening and gave him a number of one signed by Col. Rhodes and another by These dispatches warned Jameson that there probably be an ambuscade prepared for him by the Rowlands told Jameson that there had not been any fighting In and added that he hoped to see him In town that Jameson and his officers expressed surprise that there had been no fighting In Johannesburg and what the people were The witness an- swered that arms were being distributed and the shops were being In answer to a question by Sir Edward counsel for the Rowlands said that the Reform Union was not a revolutionary Arms had been served ho said because there had been rumors of a and also rumors that the Boers were about to attack Witness said that he believed that the dispatches he to Jameson expressed at his coming and offered to send men to meet The couit then A representative of The United Press tried to-day to obtain an Interview with Dr. the leader of the Ill-fated raid Into tho Transvaal on the subject of the sentences Imposed by the High Court at Pretoria upon the members of the Reform Dr. Jameson declined to discuss the matter beyond ing that he was astounded by the severity of the which rendered the sition very INFORMATION IN Confidence that John mond's Sentence Will De April H. United States Vice Consul at Cape South has cabled Secretary ney that the sentence of John Hays the American engineer condemned to death for participation In tjie la understood to have been Senator Stewart prepared and circulated In both houses of Congress to-day a tion addressed to President Kriiger of the Transvaal Republic him to pardon John Hays The fact that such been signed and would be for- warded was cabled the Transvaal ment The which was alined Is as The members of the ale and of the House of of the United States of represent that John Hays Hammond IB a citizen of the United a man of high character and connected the best families In thia and an engineer of We regret exceedingly his unfortunate connection with the In your for all our people entertain feelings of kindness and In view of the irreproachable character of Mr. Hammond In hla own country and the high standing of his friends and we earnestly ask for him your most kindly If Excellency would extend to him a pardon for his offenses against your ofe 0- SULLIVAN HELPS PLATT LEXOW RESOLUTION IS SQUEEZED THROUGH THE Oppose the Proposition to Pat the of Framing a. Greater New-York Charter In the Hands of the and the Scheme Saved by a The Assembly May Reject the Plan April Timothy Dry Sullivan pulled Thomas C. chestnuts of the in the Senate Through a combination be- tween the men and Platt was just able to the resolution Leiow tee of the Senate and so that It may act as a whip over the head of the Greater New-York Commission the Summer and So stout was the resistance made to this bit of jobbery by several of the Senators and all of the Democrats except that when it came to a final vote on the oie Platt Republicans found It was Impossible for them to pass It without the vote of And they got it. The vote was 20 to 20. The 2C votes were all Even this Joint victory of Platt and Dry Dollar was not won until after the ate had clipped the wings of the that is to harass and annoy the Greater New-York Commission by limiting Its expenditures to This bit of economy was vigorously protested against by Senators Lexow and the two most conspicuous of the Platt The proposition to limit the expenditures to was made in the form of an ment offered by Senator and was adopted by a vote of 27 to 13. The Republicans had several reasons for opposing this latest mandate of Platt and his political Sunday school but one of the chief ones was the growing tion to the conspicuous prominence in lative matters of Boardman who are understood to be laying pipe to secure for themselves the appointment as counsel to the Greater New-York Com- mission When It shall be Even some of the men who have been meekly wearing the Platt manacles are getting tired of catering to the Platt family In- and they are gradually awakening to a vague Impression that perhaps their constituents sent them to the Senate for some other purpose than that of serving There Is a. story that Edward Lauterbach would not be disappointed If he should have the naming of the counsel to the Greater New-York Commission and thai he Is dialing under the prominence given to It Is suggested that one reason for reviving the Lexow sub-committee Is to give Mr. Lauterbach a chance be counsel to that committee himself of to name some one for the The main reason for the revival of the Is found in the failure of the Platt crowd to make an opening at this session through the mental bills could be The Platt yers have these bills The Lexow sub-committee will use the material In them so far as possible In Its It is a Jong since has bad so narrow a In the Senate he In- this matter It was practically His troubles are not yet for tne being a concurrent must to tns Assembly and it Is very problematical whether that body can be Induced to pass it. Chairman Charles Hackett and Payn were here all day laboring in behalf of The screws were put on here and yet It would have failed but for tho The debate on the resolution was and sometimes very tor Pavey opposed the resolution In a speech which was an attack on Platt declared that the tee would drag the Greater New-York down into the mire of Republican Party defeat for the lican Party in the State if such methods were allowed to When Senator Lexow called up his he said Andrew H. Green favored It. The commission could not and examine hut the sub-committee could force attendance and and would assist In a correct tion ol the governmental problem of the greater Senator Cantor said the power to report the Greater New-York bills should be left with the commission to be appointed by the He moved that the resolution be referred to the Finance Senator Mullin offered an amendment iting the expenditures of the committee to He said the people were getting tired of paying lar items and Items for fees to lawyers on legislative in- Senator McCarren said it seemed to him that the Greater New-York sub-committee wished to perpetuate Itself so as to be able to interfere with the work of the Greater New-York Senator Mullin's amendment was to 13. Senator Cantor said he wished to advise the of Greater New-York that the resolution was a dangerous He The sub-committee is devised to be a steering plan is the and most bigoted of party Senator Pavey said that the Republican State organization had by and threats passed the Greater New-York Now the Governor is to get a slap in the face by the adoption of this The Governor's commission will be a competent The sub-committee will be of the machine and for the Senator motion to refer the was to 23. Senator Cantor said the resolution would have a bad effect on the commission to appointed by the He doubted whether the Governor could get ed men to act subservient to the Defeated by public this Is but an evasion of declarations made the Republican leader on the The real object Is the bringing forward of lation in the interest of the Republican I charge the Senator from the Twenty-third with breaking away from his pledges that a charter must be presented to the before legislation Is Senator McNulty The Senator from the Fifteenth said that bribery was used to pass the Greater through the Parliamentary usage will not allow me to say that he It he refers to but I mean I tried to get the through the and argued hard to get Democratic The Introduction of this resolution Is a betrayal of those who voted for tho Greater York and we are against Who betrayed asked who Is against You tried but you could said Who favors Senator Stranahan said the arguments of the opposition relative to the Influence of No. 49 Broadway and the machine cheap and flimsy and not worthy of Senator Foley said this resolution was a which the Republicans had up their sleeve when Greater New-York passed You did not dare your hand ho Senator McCarren said the only reason Ihe Republican majority refrained from In- supplementary legislation was because Gov. Morton would not of It. I have said for six weeks that there would be no supplemental said Senator after you got the responded Senator Senator White said he believed the er New-York Commission had full power to and examine Un- til it ia shown that the commission has not the power to act I am against this said Senator Ford said he was personally against the He believed would complicate the work of and was bad Senator Lexow asked for a roll and Senators were found .to be Senator Lexow asked for an open of the and this was agreed Forty-six Senators were found and proceedings under the were The resolution was then put on final sage and a roll coll The tion was to C. and G. A. and Senators of Coffey of of and Seibert of were either absent or did not Nussbaum's resolution that the Sergeant at Arms attend the sessions of the Investigating Committees during tne Summer was HOLMES WASTS OTHERS the Murder Fiend's Counsel Will for n. April Bullock of who is In this in the interest of H. H. the convicted murderer of Benjamin F. who is sentenced to be hanged May 7, to-day ad- mitted that a reprieve would be applied One of the principal the attorney for asking for a Is that Holmes has become tired of standing alone In punishment for his and that If the Governor could be Induced to grant him a brief respite he would divulge the names of several men who aided him In the murders Mr. Bullock re- fused to mention the name of any one who is equally guilty with and he Intimated that the end of the Hatch story was about to be You con rest he that there is a strong card yet to be If the Governor should refuse to there are other ings through which Holmes can be saved from the gallows until he has explained fully his connection with several of the crimes to which he has It was announced this afternoon that Mrs. had given up all hopes of receiving any of the insurance money which Holmes secured through her husband's and that she would leave to-night for her home at 111. Coroner Castor seema to be in the dark as to why he was called to Philadelphia by He has with him the testimony of the inquest In the case of young Howard whom Holmes Is alleged to have but he cannot ine to what use It will be POWELL'S MURDERER Pleads Guilty of Arthur the Hempstead negro who was indicted and tried on a charge of having killed Stephen Powell of Hempstead March 7, was yesterday In Long Island of murder In the first Justice Keogh presided at the The jury was out but two and was unanimous in Its Many of those filled the courtroom the days of the trial were from Long Island and had friends of Mr. Powell for The prosecution examined many and by them constructed a complete chain of circumstantial and also placed who said that he was with Mayhew and aided him In murdering Mr. on the and had him re- late the entire history of the hla and some witnesses for testified to facts if constituted an but the Jury placed no confidence in the dence for the defense and a conviction After the Jury had brought In its verdict District Attorney Noble announced that Wayne was ready to plead guilty to the charge of manslaughter In the first Both Mayhew and Wayne will be sentenced May 5. the soldier who killed a man at will also be sentenced SHREWD POLITICAL TRICK REPUBLICAN TO SPLIT THE DEMOCRATIC Tariff Famishing Money Which to Hake a Silver Report Has that If the Chicago Convention Shall Declare for Free Coinage Its Surely Be De- at the April 50 to 150 is this majority for the sliver men In the cago Convention that the silver Democrats now ore looking As has been stated In these the men who are ting out these figures believe In the efficacy of sanguine reports to affect the color of delegations to be If the money men had manifested half the con- cern or confidence that has been exhibited by the silver they would have as much advantage the silver fanatics us the men In the Republican Party evidently enjoy In comparison with the Inquiry among the men furnished Information to support the expectations put forth in the dispatch to THE TIMES last The Democrats are sure the convention at Chicago will not nominate a silver man by two-thirds jsd they are not yet sure that the convention will not declare for sound set the campaign in motion so that the Democrats can elect a majority In the next and keep the organization In shape for later contests when the Presidential will be more encouraging than they now appear to The outlook to these men Is that there Is yet a chance to hold the convention for sound to prevent the declaration for that tho Southern and Western men Intend to push and set the contest in motion with a reasonable show of a normal fight between the two Senator Gorman expressed the opinion within a day or two that silver will qot carry the Chicago The expectation of the Is that of ent free-silver coinage will have In the Chicago Convention at least the following number of from the States 12 Minnesota 18 u u Illinois 24 Indiana Iowa m Kentucky 13 Maine Maryland Massachusetts Wisconsin 20 New-York TZ Ohio 20 Pennsylvania Rhode 8 Texas 15 Vermont 8 Virginia 12 MISTAKEN FOR Three Made Violently 111 by a HIGHLAND N. April Sweeney and William Plynn and wife have been guests at Kruse's Hotel during the past few Yesterday while out walking In the they saw what they thought was a fine bed of They plucked and Plynn showed Landlady Kruse a new method of preparing the strong Mrs. Kruse did not care for but tuo three guests relished it. About midnight the ish began to and an hour later the trio were in Dr. Brown wag hastily and he did all he could to relieve the Flynn's heart stopped but brandy was forced down his and he was restored to The doctor worked over his patients all night and Mrs. Jb is but the two men are still In a precarious Nobody knows tho nature of the poisonous plant that caused the BARBERS MUST Their City Brethren May Do Till Noon April McGraw lowing barbers to work on Sundays up to noon In cities of the first but barbers from plying their trade on Sundays In other places In the was a special order In the Assembly this after- Mr. McNaughton offered an amendment providing that barbers In Niagara Falls and Saratoga may also on Sundays up to 12 It was lost by a vote of 90 nays to 22 Tho was then 44 As the measure no barbers can ply their trade on Sundays except those in and Barbers In those cities may work on Sundays up to 12 o'clock A Correction by The committee of women who are porting Miss Mary Van Vanderpoel as a for the office of Regent of the New-York City Chapter of the ters of the American Revolution has issued a In regard to the Regent repeatedly urged Miss derpoel not to be a candidate against as mentioned In our statement published our Miss wishes to say that this is a The Regent has asked her to retain her present position of First Vice We aro very glad to make this and to add that since our statement notices have been received calling a Safety Committee The Daughters will hold their annual election Mrs. Donald McLean IB a candidate for re-election as Dave Martin a April delegate to the National Convention from the Fifth Congressional In this announces that he has decided to vote for on the first ballot and on every other ballot as long as he shall be a The April to the which will meet have be- gun to Free silver will and none but silver men will go as gates to the Chicago There be no for delegate at- But this canvass Is objected to by many A who Is con- the men will win In his says the opponents of free silver will have the entire Friends of sound money In Georgia say there will be at least eight delegates from that State who may be depended on to vote to keep the party from a fatal error in Us financial It also is predicted In addition to the delegates In the enough will be chosen from and West Virginia to make the from to 4SO, 1ft that there would be a majority of about twenty free ver Instead of fifty In favor of Independent -free With such organization and as the men have at their command they are endeavoring to stem the tide of free-silver energy all over the and they will endeavor to Impress upon money men the usefulness and perhaps ing Importance of Individual effort to the result regarded as not only to present Democratic but to the maintenance of Democratic unity and efficiency In future One thing strikes the as so plain that the rank and lile must have observed U. The silver men aro running an expensive nnd extensive campaign with Two bureaus are In operation here in They are supporting men with and they are sending out of silver It Is learned that none of the prominent silver Democrats Is paying the expenses of these The men who serve as silver agents are too poor to volunteer their or to pay printing and postage tills Incurred from day to day In the silver One of the managers Is the formei Republican man of the Republican State Committee in North an old political once a and for a long time an office There Is reason to believe this silver In which Democrats are posed to be Interested Is being run by the money supplied by the Republican Tho story it comes from a a combination of desirous of the restoration of the Republican Party and the return to duties on got the Idea from Republican politicians if they would sustain a silver and encourage a. Democratic effort for the result would be the division and ruin of the Democratic Party and over- whelming election of the for the Presidency and for the Con- This story Is not It Is more reasonable than the suggestion that the silver who cannot expect to get free and who never have been liberal In putting for their would spend money for printing bills and employ outcast Republicans and Democrats to cate the country to look for a result that will be regarded as Intolerable and Tlie scheme does great credit to the In- genuity of the Republicans who contrived but it makes the Democrats appear to be convenient subjects on whom lo palm off political gold bricks and to Invite Into bunko games that have no plausible or re- deeming Did Safe Start the April field station of the Hartford and cut Valley Railroad was burned to the ground this and a carload of standing on the consigned to Marcy contractors Xt the State was Another car Was partly The office safe is In the station with small hole in the door near the combination It Is believed that were trying to blow open the and started the The station woe valued at about A Desperado JOHNSON April an entered tho railroad station at Pine Flats last night wearing a pointing a pistol at J. B. the told him to nold up his Wolfe stood and as ho did so Crouch fired at close tearing Wolfe's collar and burning his Wolfo returned the the bullet producing a fatal Crouch Is a member of one of the best families of this Rejected All the April Carlisle has rejected all the bids for erecting the additional eight stories of the In New-York The lowest bidder was James A. of at The reason signed Is that the lowest bid Is In excess of the amount of money available for the Changes will now be made In the original and specifications and new bids G. R. Reed Fort PORT N. April the election to-day George R. Reed was elected president of the and John J. H. Marshall and William 3. Foster was elected There were five In the and the content an exciting ARREST OF He Wan Slumming Steve nnd the successor to Booth aa Commander of tho Salvation Army In tho United arrested last night by Detective Coyle anu taken to the Elizabeth Street Police A charge of disorderly conduct was made against Steve Brodlo gave curity In for Ills appearance In the Centre Street Court Commissioner Booth with Steve Brodle and Harry a paper had been slumming In They had sampled all sorts of ental banged the sacred and Investigated all the dens and fanian games that were within the reach of less and were on their way io the Bowery when the police stopped had disguised himself with a preposterous wig of oily brown tow and grizzly whiskers that proclaimed selves Acting Captain Young of the Street squad must have made up his mind to be for you could see the wig and whiskers were a block I was with Coyle at Street and the when Tucker nnd the others were on the opposite side of the and told Coyle to see what the man had falso whiskers on and Coyle arrested The Commissioner did not seem grieved at hly He signed the tion house bond In a bold His press agent notified the newspaper of hla After he had washed his face in saloon and borrowed a slouch hat he started out again under the of the bridge jumper to have a look at the Interior of some of the Bowery lodging TWENTY LITTLE CHILDREN lulo n Crowd Near n April team hitched to a hack ran away on Mitchell be- tween Second and Third at o'clock this dashing west la crowd of who wero standing In front of the Twenty of the little ones were Those seriously hurt on head and severe Internal shoulder dislocated and col- bone right arm seriously crushed and broken and Internally not expected to shoulder right lee broken above the The children aro between seven and eight years of A Humor that He Will Be for April The return to the United States of Capt. W. Holt has given rise to the rumor that he will be for disregarded his orders last In taking the caster to Montevideo by way of the instead of proceeding directly to his Upon his arrival at Montevideo a court of Inquiry was Instituted In the case nf upon orders from the and tho Captain was Instructed to proceed home In the The report of the Buard of has been received at the Navy De- and be examined in a day or Upon the finding of the which hns been kept a secret up to this will depend further action In Capt. Hoff's NELSON NARROW la the by a Driving April Col- yer of son of Robert C. to-day reported to the ties that passing the convent at Syosset last evening he was attacked by a strange who shot at him with a The bullet passed through Mr. hat and made a wound In his but not a serious Colyer had been out collecting money for his and hud amount the stranger accosted when he realized he been whipped up his reaching sent for a The latter dressed his and then a search wan made for the but he could not bo LIBERTY OF FAITH IN A Proponed Proclamation Which Synod April Home ent of The Daily News telegraphs that Vatican officials have learned that on the occasion of the coronation of the Czar a proclamation will be issued granting erty of conscience throughout the ions of The Holy It is Is trying to the issue of the Died from PERTH N. April 13 Stated that George a old who on the outskirts of this city with his and who died a few days was a victim of nicotine The child had been a constant smoker ho was six years and during the Illness which ended bis begged most to be supplied with Tho undertaker who had charge of the body states that it was very much and was already somewhat discolored when ho at the All efforts IP preserve the botly were and It could not be uncovered at the Smashed n. Thorn and hla wife of 72 Charles Street were riding tandem on a in Eighth Avenue last when Jacob Morris of 231) West Twentieth an express ran Into tho throwing Mr. and Mrs. Thorn to tlie ground lind ruining their Morris was arrested and taken to West eth Street and will appear In ferson Market Court The father of the prisoner offered to pay for the broken but tho Thorns refused to accept tho and Morris was locked Valuable Horse Was J. F. of 318 Seventy-second Street was driving In a high gig on tho East In Central Park At Sixty-fifth Street the kingbolt broke and the horae run carrying the shafts with Mr. ana his Harry were thrown Both were cut and but were not seriously At Sixty-third 9trect tho annoyed by the swaying ran Into the bank and fractured his skull against un iron lamp Veterinary Surgeon ordered tho horse Tho animal was at Calvary Dny The Calvary Day Nursery and which has occupied the frame ing 210 West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street for a year outgrew the building re- and yesterday took possession of the four-story English basement house 211. West One Hundred and The officers Directors of the Institution held a there last THEEB WOULD DIE FOR VICTOR GIHL TALKS OF SUICIDE FOR And tlie Lovel Procured n Revolver to Shoot Supposed Jennie Sent to Protectory She Will We Be Married She Jennie a pert little girl with jet black black and who IB decidedly was a prisoner in the Market Police Court yesterday charged by her Stanley and Mary of 1SS Jennie Is thirteen years and is rather robust for lier Her parents caused her she had fallen In love with Victor who Is fourteen yours and who also lives at 1S3 Allen The parents to break up the but little girl told them that if she separated from her boy lover commit refused to school and wai In tho habit of mooting her boy lover every They would wander around ttio each other's The ents searched the clothing found several letters which hnd been passed be- tween the the society and Agents and Uletz placed the under Tlie society suid the girl should be placed In an as they believed she would out her threat to commit so Intense was lier love for the The letters and subsequent by showed that a shadow had been east over tlie youthful romance In ttio person of a. friend of a of the girl who likewise making love to according to the story be- Intensely jealous when he learned lie had a and procured a revolver with which he proposed to shoot Ins The following copies of some nf tin letters found In the girl's 17, The fellow who I urn HI is 11.4 -A of MI I Mini u Is why I mil Init tu I Kind for tills I 1 rot d n saw talking to Having say 1 semi you very nico klsa J April 14, Dear I like jou nun h. If you I don't Liny kisses Yun Mice a loni I v. Ml i- you or MISS P. S- 1 send my to ycu my dear I like you arc mo. me foi 1 did nut know thai be Jealous of me I am sun lhal 1 cjn to a fellow If my Mm. i me for lime for 1 will talk to a let im- If on an- or IT you I'll Hd m me I am lo mv Insi In the Sunday uill miss the from 1 love you L i v the was before Crane her mother stood The Magistrate the Tlie mother was In tea is. N HO I love she and ever make him You will have to KU to Magistrate Crane unless you are willing to stay .it home and leave Oils don't care whether I am sent to jail or luit 1 will still love eaa keep me in jail as as you want but I will him Her i said that she had chastised the child had nf her ml a tlie but that il proved the proceedings in a boy who is to 1" en inched into Ihe court and Sergeant Lovell if he see the He liu was to be to the The gently escorted him to tho Crane decided to commit the the Catholic As she Vias led nul court in the custody of the who had waited ran to her He made several attempts 1 o but was prevented liv the howt threw to As was placed on a ear she cried I will lie to you Don't We will he married yet Tried April US sixteen jears ef T. was committed to the in- sane by f. M. inson this lie to two Jires hitt Friday at his said to his mother while tire was We'll he In heaven and all our troubles v. ill bo Henry S. N. April 3. the market statistician critically 111 at liis home in Third has tu his home several Mr. Is prominent and Is President of tho County Crand Army of a Murderer of April Annie ihu baby with her Arthur K. Is under arrest al charged with the murder 01 a number of made a written confession I lie murders of which she is It Is probable that Insanity will ha her when her cumes to Warship April warship 15.048 the heaviest tonnage was launched to-day nt She Is ilar 10 tho warship recently tlie April hero from the Island of say that the tan Reform have repulsed tha Turkish troops at killing twenty of forest fire broko out In and and la 31111 lire burned un urea of woodland 200 frum 10 tho Kour Corners un the mid frum tho Road to n distance over the on children of John mill In were io death In a. lire lhat destroyed home Another child waji fatally and life IH despaired cf. Manning badly but will Frank and Cash Alexander of went on u liiK In u boat In at- to change seals fell The and and Strassler weic drowned powder of the Treadwell on oft containing four tons the of April 10 by a of Cat General Wilson has mended to President the name of H. lo O. nn master nt N. Mr. expires iho latter paat of SALE OF TRUNKS need ronni for our clothing We of our entire stocK of bago steamer rugs at 20 Mr from firmer low Q. MIN. 28TH  

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